Baby Reindeer: what Richard Gadd has said about the real ‘Darrien’

is a hard-hitting show about a comedian, Donny, who finds himself struggling to deal with a stalker who begins to infiltrate his life and ultimately force him to come to terms with other traumas in his past, including being sexually assaulted by a man while at Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

In the series, Darrien O’Connor is an older TV writer who is working on a TV show that Donny admires, Cotton Mouth, and offers him help with his career. Donny is thrilled that someone has seen his potential and works hard to impress his new mentor, but things take a terrible turn as Donny realises that he is being abused by Darrien when the pair routinely do drugs together at Darrien’s flat.

“It’s a true story, based on my early 20s when I went through some pretty crazy things… There’s a flashback episode where we actually go back in time to Donny going to the Edinburgh Fringe and meeting someone in the industry who helps them in their career but goes on to abuse Donny and that’s obviously taken from my real-life experiences.“It was a hell of a thing to write and shoot. It shows a side of abuse that I don’t think we’ve seen before.

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